Chris Johnson
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2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1)
Just a heads up for those that use our demo VM sets that we produce. We just released a new version...
Date: 09/14/2011
Unsung Hero Winners Announced
We received tonnes of incredible and inspiring nominations for your unsung heroes of the SharePoint...
Date: 08/10/2011
Send an unsung hero to SPC…
unsung hero Part of Speech: n Definition: a person who makes a substantive...
Date: 07/01/2011
Part 2: “Headless” Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client Side Object Model
This is a continuation from my last post: Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client...
Date: 05/13/2011
Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client Side Object Model
With the Office 365 Beta opening not long ago people are starting to test the waters with regards to...
Date: 05/02/2011
SharePoint 2010 SDK – Now with more SharePoint Online!
Our fantastic documentation team released an update to the SharePoint SDK today that includes a raft...
Date: 11/22/2010
Real World Branding with SharePoint 2010 Publishing Sites
Want to learn how to build an internet facing web site on SharePoint 2010? A newly released...
Date: 11/18/2010
Announcing SharePoint Easy Setup for Developers
Starting today developers can download a new set of pre-packaged tools that help developers easily...
Date: 10/27/2010
SharePoint Connections, Las Vegas & SharePint Community Event
If you have ever been to a SharePoint event in the past, then you will know that one of the...
Date: 10/27/2010
SharePoint Sideshow
The new SharePoint Sideshow is up live on Channel 9. The first show is up and live with Paul...
Date: 10/07/2010
SharePoint Connections, Las Vegas Nov 1-4
I will be presenting 2 sessions at the up coming SharePoint Connections in Las Vegas, Nov 1-4....
Date: 10/05/2010
SharePoint development environments, my guidance
At most conferences or events I get cornered by at least two or three people wanting my opinion on...
Date: 08/10/2010
SharePoint, ADO.Net Data Services and Silverlight 4 data binding example
I presented recently at an internal Microsoft conference here in Seattle & showed a simple...
Date: 08/04/2010
SharePoint 2010 Demo and Eval VM (RTM edition)
Happy to announce we have published our new RTM Hyper-V Virtual Machine. It contains all the...
Date: 05/08/2010
SharePoint 2010, Office 2010 and Profile Pictures
As many of you will know SharePoint & Office make heavy use of your profile pictures to...
Date: 05/07/2010
TechEd 2010 North America and the Office and SharePoint Track
If you were wondering if you should come to TechEd this year wonder no more. Planning is well...
Date: 02/11/2010
SharePoint 2010 Beta Virtual Machine available
(Long time no post … sorry! we have been really busy!) Last week we released a new SharePoint 2010...
Date: 02/03/2010
Real World Branding with SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites
We just went live with a brand new HUGE! two part whitepaper on branding SharePoint 2007 Publishing...
Date: 08/04/2009
How we demo…
I get a bunch of questions at events etc… on how our team do demos. I don't mean the content of the...
Date: 05/03/2009
SharePoint Conference Tweets
Letting blog readers know that the official SharePoint Conference tweet stream is up: ...
Date: 03/27/2009
VS 2010 and SharePoint
Soma posted on the new SharePoint and Visual Studio integration coming in the next release of Visual...
Date: 02/20/2009
Demoing SharePoint… how do you do it?
Ivory Tower (Redmond) to all earth bound SharePoint peeps. I need some info on your l33t...
Date: 02/07/2009
SharePoint Conference 2009 announced
Vegas, SharePoint & loads of great content & people … do i need to say any more?...
Date: 02/03/2009
New job
No I haven’t been laid off from Microsoft … and hope I don't any time soon :) I changed roles this...
Date: 01/31/2009
New SharePoint Ramp Up Training available
If you are a new to SharePoint development then this series of training might be helpful. Part...
Date: 01/29/2009
Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3
As you might have seen on the SharePoint Team Blog we released the Community Technology Preview of...
Date: 01/12/2009
Zune pass is now officially beyond awesome
I already subscribe to Zune Pass and love it for the ability to discover music using a subscription...
Date: 11/24/2008
BB13: SharePoint 2007 Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio -- Sample Code
Here are the code samples I demonstrated in my PDC Session last week as promised. You can watch the...
Date: 11/04/2008
Packin for PDC
Its always a geeks worst nightmare packing for a conference and getting the balance of gadgets,...
Date: 10/25/2008
PDC 2008: SharePoint 2007: Creating SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2008
I hope everyone is getting as pumped as I am for the PDC next week. So much dev geek goodness...
Date: 10/21/2008
RoundTable
So i was in a meeting today and we had a remote participant. We were using Live Meeting to do...
Date: 10/16/2008
T minus 13 days and counting
My presentation is complete, demos are done & final fit and finish is under way. More...
Date: 10/14/2008
PDC 08 & SharePoint
I am really looking forward to PDC this year. There is an awesome lineup of very cool stuff...
Date: 10/07/2008
Tesla at Microsoft
Tesla were on campus today showing off the Roadster. Very very cool indeed. The thing...
Date: 09/26/2008
I’m a PC
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Date: 09/19/2008
VSeWSS 1.2 in other languages…
We just went live with VSeWSS 1.2 in some more languages. Here are the links to all the...
Date: 08/26/2008
NZ on Live Search page…
Just saw this now … nice to see the homeland represented…
Date: 08/21/2008
Bill’s last day
Today is BillG’s last day full time at Microsoft. I just finished watching a live web cast of Bill’s...
Date: 06/27/2008
UPDATED: Building a simple ASP.Net page based SharePoint application in Visual Studio with the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 1.2 with Visual Studio 2008
I have had a lot of feedback from people via email and comments that they really like the blog post...
Date: 06/06/2008
VSeWSS v1.2 is available! - VS 2008 support!
Hi Everyone, I just posted the announcement on the SharePoint team blog here:...
Date: 06/04/2008
Become a SharePoint Developer -www.MSSharePointDeveloper.com
SharePoint is taking off in ways we only could have imagined a few years ago. Along with that...
Date: 06/03/2008
Shuttle docking, New Zealand & XP
If there is one thing I love the Internet for its watching stuff happening in space. I...
Date: 06/02/2008
WSSv3 on Vista
Yesterday Bamboo Solutions released a tool that allows you to install WSSv3 on Vista. ...
Date: 05/22/2008
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User Guide, Version 1.1
Big title for a big user guide! :) This is a great step forward for people starting out with...
Date: 05/12/2008
Loving the new Zune update
Finally managed to get around to updating my Zune software to the new update. Great to see TV...
Date: 05/08/2008
Loving the new Live Maps features...
I have used Live Maps for a long time now ... but they just keep adding awesome features!...
Date: 04/15/2008
SharePoint protocol documentation released...
We have just spent a great deal of time head down writing documentation on all sorts of SharePoint...
Date: 04/09/2008